When assessing a client from a Freudian developmental perspective, the nurse determines that he is functioning in the latency stage based on which of the following behaviors?
A) He frequently bites the other children at preschool.
B) He has not yet developed adequate bowel control.
C) He is beginning to develop inner control over aggressive impulses.
D) He has developed the capacity for object relations.
Ans: C
The latency stage, according to Freud, is the stage in which the child is beginning to develop internal control over aggressive impulses.
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